This is my insider's guide to the best museums, churches and parks in Barcelona! Read about my personal experiences, tips and share in valuable local knowledge given to me by my dear Catalan friends. My list contains tourists attractions that I've either been to or I would like to visit. I have included entrance fees [...]
As professional artists we have to be in it for the long game because to sell art is a speculative business. We need to build our audience, get to know gallerists, join artists' clubs, attend art events and learn the many skills required for successful marketing strategies. Our public We build up an art loving [...]
I've been growing chilli plants regularly in zone 10 since 2006. In this blog post I share tips on how to cultivate your own chilli plants. I don't know which variety of Capsicum Frutescens I'm growing, they could be Siling Labuyo – see how the pods grow upwards! How to choose your chilli [...]
Helios Gomez and Frans Masereel at the Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona The exhibition curator states a clear link that Helios Gomez (1905–1956) was influenced by Frans Masereel (1898—1972). When Frans and Helios met, Helios quickly adopted the woodcut technique that Frans was using and they both worked on projects of wordless storytelling, in the [...]
The National Art Museum of Catalunya, Montjuic, Barcelona. These original Romanesque frescos survived from the 11th and 12th centuries. The quality of the line and colour is so clear considering they have endured fires and dereliction. Entering the first room is awe inspiring, with the atmospheric low lighting and the scale of [...]
The collection at the Ethnological Museum, Montjuic, Barcelona On entering the basement of the museum, it’s like a store room with glass covered shelves upon high shelves of every sort of artefact collected from around the world, including some extremely finely carved bone, wood, rose quartz and tons of ceramics. These little painted wooden panels [...]
This is a comprehensive list of movies about artists Most websites will give you the top 10 films but here you can see 78! Click the links to read the reviews and learn about the lives of each artist. A list of feature films about artists' lives This list is in alphabetical order by the [...]
This is a comprehensive list of feature films about art, artists and or art scenes Click the links to read the reviews and learn about the lives of artists. These films are in date order. Bauhaus 100 (2019) - watch on Youtube Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) About a female painter Mi obra [...]
I have selected 59 documentaries, with links, so you can look them up. It's the kind of list to introduce you to new artists and to inspire you to find further material about them. You may notice that I have thrown a load of female artists in amongst those genius’ that are usually the same [...]
This a how-to guide for adding edited videos to Instagram, using your video editing software, before using your smartphone or DropBox to upload. I make my films in Final Cut Pro X. How to make a video with a square aspect ratio To begin with, you will need to make a new project with a [...]
Content Think about what you are passionate about, what catches your eye, what is in front of you. What do you wake up thinking about and what do you feel urged to paint? You can use reference materials (it’s always best to create your own references, as that will make your artwork original and will [...]
What is a hashtag? A hashtag as a way to categorise and find posts about a particular subject. Hashtags are followed by large groups of people, who are interested in or associated with a subject. Start by searching for hashtags in subjects that interest you, to see how they work. The main point of using [...]
